US Coast guard searches for worker missing from platform

29 October 2013, News Wires – US Coast Guard crews and offshore supply vessels are searching for a crewmember reported missing from a platform 55 miles south of Freshwater Bayou.

Missing is Peter Voces, 38, last seen wearing an orange work vest, jeans and a brown shirt. Coast Guard Sector New Orleans watchstanders received a report at 7:30 p.m. of a crewmember seen going into the water from a platform in Vermillion Block 200.

“The Coast Guard, in coordination with the civilian good Samaritans vessels, are aggressively searching for Mr. Voces,” said Cmdr. Ken Blair, search-and-rescue mission coordinator with Sector New Orleans in a October 28 press release